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Selected Bibliography for Macbeth
 
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Adelman, Janet. “‘Born of Woman’: Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth.” Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Eds. Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1996. top

Bloom, Harold. “The Great Tragedies: Macbeth.” Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. 516-545.

Brooks, Cleanth. “The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness.” Twentieth Century Interpretations of Macbeth. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Burnham, Douglas. “Language, Time and Politics in Shakespeare's Macbeth.” Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture. Ed. Sharon Ouditt. Studies in European Cultural Transition 14. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002. 21-32. top

Cartelli, Thomas. “Banquo’s Ghost.” Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. 94-120.

Cartwright, Kent. “Scepticism and Theatre in Macbeth.” Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production 55 (2002): 219-36.

Cavell, Stanley. “Macbeth Appalled.” Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Chandler, David. “Lady Macbeth’s ‘milke’ and ‘gall:’ A Christian Idea?” English Language Notes 35.3 (1998): 25-8.

Cohen, Derek. “‘Noseless, Handless, Hack'd and Chipp'd: Broken Human Bodies.” Searching Shakespeare: Studies in Culture and Authority. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2003.

Cohen, Derek. “Messengers of Death: The Figure of the Hit Man.” Searching Shakespeare: Studies in Culture and Authority. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2003.

Cohen, Derek. “The Past of Macbeth.” Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance. Ed. Lloyd Davis. Newark, DE: Associated UP, 2003. 46-61.

Coles, Jane. “Much Ado about Nationhood and Culture: Shakespeare and the Search for an ‘English’ Identity.” Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education 11.1 (2004): 47-58.

Craig, Leon Harold. Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2001. top

Dean, Paul. “Murderous Repetition: Macbeth as Echo Chamber.” English Studies 80.3 (1999): 216-24.

Di Biase, Carmine G. “'I Am as I have Spoken': The Act of Naming in Macbeth.” Renaissance and Reformation 25.1 (2001): 23-44. top

Egan, Gabriel. “The Early Seventeenth-Century Origin of the Macbeth Superstition.” Notes & Queries 49 (2002): 236-37. top

Favila, Marina. “‘Mortal Thoughts’ and Magical Thinking in Macbeth.” Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature 99.1 (2001): 1-25. top

Gervais, David. “Shakespeare and Night: The Dream, Macbeth and Racine.” English: The Journal of the English Association 51.199 (2002): 15-25.

Goldberg, Jonathan. “Speculations: Macbeth and Source.” Shakespeare's Hand. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2003.

Gooder, Jean. “’Fixt fate’and ‘free will’ in Phedre and Macbeth.” Cambridge Quarterly 28.3 (1999): 214-32.

Greenblatt, Stephen. “Shakespeare Bewitched.” Shakespeare’s Tragedies. Ed. Susan Zimmerman. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1998. 109-39. top

Hibbs, Stacey and Thomas Hibbs. “Virtue, Natural Law, and Supernatural Solicitation: A Thomistic Reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth.” Religion and the Arts 5.3 (2001): 273-96.

Howard, Jean E. “Shakespeare, Geography, and the Work of Genre on the Early Modern Stage.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 64.3 (2003): 299-322.

Hunt, Maurice. “Duncan, Macbeth, and the Thane of Cawdor.” Studies in the Humanities 28.1-2 (2001): 1-30. top

Kállay, Géza. “Was Macbeth Lying? The 'Be-All', the 'End-All', and the Ethics of Time.” European Journal of English Studies 7.2 (2003): 137-49.

Kendall, Gillian Murray. “Overkill in Shakespeare.” Ed. Gillian Murray Kendall. Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays. Madison, NJ: Associated UP, 1998.

Kiefer, Frederick. “‘Written Troubles of the Brain': Lady Macbeth's Conscience.” Reading and Writing in Shakespeare. Eds. David M. Bergeron and Robert S. Knapp. Newark: Associated UP, 1996. 64-81.

Kiefer, Frederick. “Hecate and the Witches in Macbeth.” Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Kimbrough, Robert. “Macbeth: The Prisoner of Gender.” Shakespeare Studies 16 (1983): 175-190.

Kinney, Arthur F. “Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Question of Nationalism.” Literature and Nationalism. Eds. Vincent Newey and Ann Thompson. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1991. 56-75.

Kinney, Arthur F. “Macbeth and the Cultural Moment.” Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth and the Cultural Moment. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 2001. 23-59.

Kranz, David L. “The Sounds of Supernatural Soliciting in Macbeth.” Studies in Philology 100.3 (2003): 346-83. top

La Belle, Jenijoy. “’A Strange Infirmity’: Lady Macbeth’s Amenorrhea.” Shakespeare Quarterly 31.3 (1980): 381-86.

Lamb, Mary Ellen. “Engendering the Narrative Act: Old Wives' Tales in The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and The Tempest.” Criticism 40.4 (1998): 529-53.

Leimberg, Inge. “Shakespeare De-Witched: A Response to Stephen Greenblatt.” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 11.1 (2001-2002): 60-77.

Lemon, Rebecca. “Scaffolds of Treason in Macbeth.”Theatre Journal 54.1 (2002): 25-43.

Levin, Joanna.”Lady Macbeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria.” ELH 69.1 (2002):21-55.

Liston, William T. “‘Male and Female Created He Them’: Sex and Gender in Macbeth.” College Literature 16.3 (1989): 232-240. top

Neely, Carol Thomas. “’Documents in Madness’: Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Early Modern Culture.” Shakespeare Quarterly 42.3 (1991): 315-38.

Neely, Carol Thomas. “Reading the Language of Distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear.” Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2004. 46-68. top

Orgel, Stephen. “Macbeth and the Antic Round.” Shakespeare Survey 52 (1999): 143-44.

Orgel, Stephen. The Authentic Shakespeare and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage. New York: Routledge, 2002. top

Paster, Gail Kern. “Melancholy Cats, Lugged Bears, and Early Modern Cosmology: Reading Shakespeare's Psychological Materialism across the Species Barrier.” Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Eds. Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson. Philadelphia, PA: U of Pennsylvania P, 2004. 113-29.

Peat, Derek. “Mad for Shakespeare: A Reconsideration of the Importance of Bedlam.” Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 21.1 (2004): 113-32.

Pellikha, Paul. “‘Strange Things I Have in Head, That Will to Hand’: Echoes of Sound and Sense in Macbeth.” Style 31.1 (1997): 14-34.

Purkiss, Diane. “Macbeth and the All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of the Jacobean Witch-Vogue.” Shakespeare, Feminism and Gender. Ed. Kate Chedgzoy. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave, 2001. 216-34.

Pye, Christopher. The Regal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle. London: Routledge, 1990. top

Rackin, Phyllis. “Staging the Female Body: Maternal Breastfeeding and Lady Macbeth’s ‘Unsex Me Here.’” Corps/décors: Femmes, orgie, parodie. Eds. Catherine Nesci, Gretchen Van Slyke, and Gerald Prince. Faux Titre: Etudes de Langue et Littérature Françaises 171. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 1999. 17-29.

Reynolds, Bryan. “Untimely Ripped: Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare.” Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future. Eds. Bryan Reynolds, Janelle Reinelt, and Jonathan Gil Harris. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.111-35. top

Smidt, Kristian. “Two Aspects of Ambition in Elizabethan Tragedy: Doctor Faustus and Macbeth.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 50 (1969): 235-248. top

Taylor, Mark. “Letters and Readers in Macbeth, King Lear, and Twelfth Night.”  Philological Quarterly 69.1 (1990): 31-53.

Trubowitz, Rachel. “‘The Single State of Man’: Androgyny in Macbeth and Paradise Lost.” Papers on Language and Literature. 26.3 (1990): 305-333. top

Waith, Eugene M. “Manhood and Valor in Macbeth.” Twentieth Century Interpretations of Macbeth. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Whalen, Richard F. “Shakespeare in Scotland: What Did the Author of Macbeth Know and When Did He Know It?” Oxfordian: The Annual Journal of the Shakespeare Oxford Society 6 (2003): 55-70.

Wilcockson, Colin. “The Harrowing of Hell Motif in Shakespeare's Macbeth.” Anglistik 14.2 (2003): 63-70.

Williamson, Marilyn L. “Violence and Gender Ideology in Coriolanus and Macbeth.”  Shakespeare Left and Right.  Eds. Ivo Kamps, Lawrence Danson, and Linda Woodbridge New York: Routledge, 1991. 147-66.

Willis, Deborah. “The Monarch and the Sacred: Shakespeare and the Ceremony for the Healing of the King's Evil.” True Rites and Maimed Rites: Ritual and Anti-Ritual in Shakespeare and His Age. Eds. Linda Woodbridge and Edward Berry. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992. 147-68.

Wills, Gary. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare’s Macbeth. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

Worster, David. “Performance Options and Pedagogy: Macbeth.” Shakespeare Quarterly 53.3 (2002): 362-78. top

Zamir, Tzachi. “‘Upon One Bank and Shoal of Time’: Literature, Nihilism, and Moral Philosophy.” New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 31.3 (2000): 529-51. top

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